Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal - Hardcover

by Bettina L. Love (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES AND A USA TODAY BESTSELLER FINALIST, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER, 10TH STOWE PRIZE FOR LITERARY ACTIVISM KIRKUS REVIEWS: 150 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE FALL NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB: SEPTEMBER 2023 MUST-READ BOOKS WE ARE TEACHERS: THE BEST NEW BOOKS COMING SEPTEMBER 2023 In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives "Love brilliantly exposes how the promise of education as a means to lift all boats and right historical wrongs is coopted by politics, strategies, euphemisms, and implicit biases that surveil and control children of color under the guise of teaching them. This is an urgent, often surprising, ultimately must-read book for anyone concerned with the pedagogy in and of our nation." - Jonathan Metzl, author of Dying of Whiteness “Detailed and persuasive, this is a must-read for educators.” - Publishers Weekly